Gerry
Thu May 08 13:29:12 PDT 2008
Ramesh
It is not my problem. It cropped up yesterday in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain and there are few reports on
the problem. I just thought it is the type of problem you enjoy.
Post 6 in this thread seems to deal with your problem but it requires
some computing skills which might deter me from taking on the task:
http://www.msfn.org/board/Copy-Admin-profile-to-Default-user-t64605.html
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Gerry
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Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
> Hi Gerry,
>
> Good question! Haven't faced that situation before, but if that
> happens (should be a rare thing to occur since the OS does not write
> to the Default User profile.) In case that happens, I would look into
> the %windir%\repair folder for a fresh NTUSER.DAT, created when
> installing Windows.
>
>>> found one complicated solution which I was hesitant to suggest
>
> Interesting! Perhaps you can send it via PM if you don't want to post
> it here.
>
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>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
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> "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:uWPpkGTsIHA.4788@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Ramesh
>
> What about a corrupt Default User Profile? Researching that yesterday
> only found one complicated solution which I was hesitant to suggest.
>
>
> Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
>> Hi Carl,
>>
>> Nothing much can be done about user profile corruption. You may have
>> to copy the account data to a new user account.
>>
>> How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in
>> Windows XP:
>>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151
>>
>> Per-user customizations are not carried forward to the new user
>> profile.